Senior Class Hicksville
1933
Class picture at Mount Vernon
Mildred Knettel is in 2nd row, 6th from right.
Her classmates autographed the back.
Note all the girls wore hats and some of the boys held walking sticks.
[Scroll down and side-to-side.If you are using Internet Explorer's Automatic Image
Resizing, click the Automatic Image Resizing icon in the lower-right
corner
of the picture, which will expand it so you can see the detail.](image courtesy of Diane
Vanstane Oley)

Charles Ferri of Syosset
in his classroom at Hicksville High School c. early '80s
Mr. Ferri taught Chemistry there for many years.(images courtesy of Stephanie
Ferri Green)

Raymond Burckley's
retirement c. 1979Mr. Burckley of Syosset (left and
far right) taught at Hicksville High School for many years.(images courtesy of Stephanie
Ferri Green)

Intersection of Routes 25A and 106 in East Norwich,
before and after the street widening in 1964
While this caused the destruction of an historic general store,
Rothmann's restaurant (1907) on the right was spared.
(April 8, 1966 news clipping courtesy of Diane Oley)

Vintage Rothmann's East
Norwich Inn postcard

Burt Bacharach's East
Norwich Inn postcard

6270 North Hempstead Turnpike,
home of Richard Downing Sr.
It is now a photography studio and is unrecognizable from its earlier
days, seen above.
(image courtesy of Peter Hayward)

6278 North Hempstead
Turnpike, East Norwich, c. 1980 Syosset resident Downing
Hayward grew up in this house It is located across and a bit to
the east of Rothmann's. The house has fallen on sad days. It
is now leased by Fido's fences.
(image courtesy of Peter Hayward)

The Pickwick Motor Inn
Exit 48, Long Island Expressway, Plainview

Ad for the Camelot
Restaurant at the Pickwick Motor Inn, c. 1974
"DINNER FOR TWO—$4.44"
"JACKETS FOR MEN, DRESSES FOR LADIES"

New Hyde Park Inn matchbook cover
The Inn was the site of the Syosset High School Five Class Reunion in
1998.

The tugboat Syosset, locations unknown
(image on left, from the website, "TugBoats: From my time in the Industry")
"Beginning in the 1880s, freight cars were floated across New York
Harbor between riverside railroad terminals in New Jersey and Long
Island, ending the expensive and time-consuming process of transferring
freight from railroad cars to barges and back to cars at the other
end. All of the railroads involved soon acquired their own
tugboats and carfloats. In 1899, the L.I.R.R. purchased its first
steel-hulled tug, the Syosset, from Cramp's Shipyard in
Philadelphia...."
text from THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD in Early Photographs,
Ron Ziel, 1990, Dover, page 87

"Water-Cure at
Syosset, L.I."
This July 7, 1847 letter published in the New-York Daily Tribune (July
19,1847) extols Dr.
Joel Shew's hydropathic cure and the charming village of Syosset with
its exhilarating springs (and ladies).
"Syosset" is really the hamlet of Oyster Bay which was called
Syosset between 1845 and 1848.(If you are using Internet Explorer's Automatic Image
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President Theodore
Roosevelt is greeted by a huge crowd in Oyster Bay upon his triumphal
return from his expedition to the heart of the Amazon basin in
1914. (Candice Millard, The River of Doubt : Theodore
Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2005)

Cartoon from Harper's
Weekly, June 4, 1904
ROOSEVELT AGAINST THE FIELD

Grave of Theodore
Roosevelt, Oyster Bay

Film clip of the Prince of Wales
placing a laurel wreath on TR's grave, Nov. 21, 1919
View using Internet Explorer. If you see an X instead of the video,
click on it.
(Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recording Sound Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)

Program for the
exercises on the first
day of issue of the commemorative postage stamp honoring Sagamore Hill,
September 14, 1953
The address was given by Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull"
Halsey (1882-1959);Syosset lawyer Benjamin
Zipper was on the Commemorative Stamp Committee.

Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club, Centre Island
The Club was founded in 1871; The Clubhouse opened in 1892.

Tiffany Foundation
artist, 1937
"In 1918 Tiffany established a foundation to which he deeded
Laurelton Hall with the aim of establishing a program to nurture young
artistic talent. Not intended as a place for technical
instruction, Laurelton Hall was a haven for fostering creative
freedom."(text from www.metmuseum.org)

Vintage postcard from the
Eugenics Records Office of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The postcard contained a request for a copy of a schedule—"Record
of Family Traits"— that the ERO used to document these traits..
From 1910 to 1940, the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory housed this infamous and discredited office
which had become a major advocate of eugenic sterilization in the United
States. The Carnegie Institution ordered it to stop its efforts in
1939, and withdrew funding for it.

Letterhead and signature of Alfred D. Hershey
His discoveries involving viral DNA at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the
early '50s won him the Nobel prize in 1969.
Although his letterhead reads "Syosset", the address actually is in
Laurel Hollow, which uses the Syosset post office.

Andrew Wencko kept his
home in Syosset but he also had a farm in Huntington from 1941 to 1945,
where he died.
Above is a 1941 letter from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture re acreage
planted.
(image courtesy of Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)

Left, Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport
Right, Vanderbilt Planetarium
Back of postcard reads: "Long Island's first and only major
planetarium, one of the world's largest and best equipped; its main sky
projector shows 11,369 stars—2,459 more than any other."

Thatched Cottage,
Centerport
match cover

Dahlstrom's Green Tree
Lodge, c. '30s-'40s
Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station
"A favorite of my family and my first introduction to smörgåsbord
and glögg outside of my home. I remember it was
still there in 1962." John Delin

Another image of Dahlstrom's Swedish Smörgåsbord
c. 50s

Smith St. Greenlawn, c. 1900
Back of postcard reads "Miss Laura Smith Syosset L.I."
Laura Smith, her siblings and parents, Henry and Carrie, moved from Greenlawn to
Syosset. Mr. Smith became the superintendent of the McGuire Pickle Works.
(postcard courtesy of Diane Oley)

Northport Harbor

Vintage ad for the Bagatelle Nursery
It was owned by Dr. Herman Baruch who supplied azaleas to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1947.
It was located on Bagatelle Road in the Half Hollow Hills area.
"My father and I searched for the Bagatelle Nursery for years. We
kept following the signs for it, to no avail. We finally stumbled on it in
the late '50s and once found, the challenge was over. We didn't buy
anything." John Delin

This photograph by the noted photographer, VanSise, probably taken in the 19th
century, has "Bayview, L.I." written on the back of the
mounting.